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Whole Wheat Banana Muffins with Reces Pieces

I bought some bananas this week and they definitely ended up on the way to mush a little faster than I expected. So instead of throwing away 4 bananas I decided to freeze them and wait a few days to gather some supplies to make some banana muffins. It just so happened that someone was talking to me about reces pieces the day before which gave me the idea to combine the two.

The idea in place I then looked up a recipe for whole wheat chocolate chip muffins where I would just sub in reces pieces instead. First hit turned out to be a good choice!

Ingredients :

1/2 cup butter – Its not a bad idea to soften it in the microwave for 15 seconds or so first.

1/2 cup light brown sugar

3/4 teaspoon baking soda – woops, turns out I actually skipped over this one by accident.

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups ripe bananas, mashed (I did not really measure I just threw all 4 in. The recipe says roughly 3 should do the trick)

1/4 cup honey – I had exactly this amount left! It took a little patience to let it collect and drip out.

Add in the Flour, roughly 1/4 cup at a time until your batter is all well mixed.

Using a spoon you can then mix in your reces pieces until they are evenly mixed into the batter.

Spoon your batter into your muffin pan filling each spot up to the top (This recipe does not really rise too much so you don’t have to worry about it rising over the sides). Now I was a bonehead and thought I had the muffin liners but I didn’t. And then I was even more of a bonehead because I forgot to spray the pan with cooking spray before I started filling up the cups. However, it turns out I didn’t need either, the muffins came out very easily.

You will want to bake these for 23 to 28 minutes (or until you can poke a toothpic into them and it comes out clean). I put a timer on for 24 minutes, poked into a few and then left them in for an additional 2 minutes while I prepared my cooling rack.

Let them sit for a minute or two in the pan then remove them and let them cool on a cooling rack / plate.

Verdict :

I have only had one so far but I was very happy with the result. The peanut butter in the reces pieces had melted a little bit which gave the nice whole wheat texture of the banana muffin a sweet edge. Very tasty!